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Hardback. The studies in this book examine a long-neglected corpus of Hebrew poetry, martyrological laments written over the 12th and 13th centuries for the victims of judicial violence in northern France. Series: Jews, Christians and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; 3H; DCQ; DSBB; DSC; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691090535
- ISBN
- 9780691090535
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.44
€ 117.44
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 634 pages, 12 halftones, 16 line illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRJX; HRQX2; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 857.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 634
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691603124
- ISBN
- 9780691603124
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Condition: New
€ 109.39€ 83.75
€ 109.39
€ 83.75
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 90 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 5. Weight in Grams: 114.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 90
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691627700
- ISBN
- 9780691627700
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Hardback. This work weaves its interpretation of Jewish culture in the Palestine of late antiquity on the warp of a singular rabbinic text "Lamentations Rabbah". The textual analyses that form the core of the book are informed by a range of theoretical paradigms rarely brought to bear on rabbinic literature. Translator(s): Stein, Batya. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; HRLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732260
- ISBN
- 9780804732260
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.58
€ 150.58
Paperback. This work weaves its interpretation of Jewish culture in the Palestine of late antiquity on the warp of a singular rabbinic text "Lamentations Rabbah". The textual analyses that form the core of the book are informed by a range of theoretical paradigms rarely brought to bear on rabbinic literature. Translator(s): Stein, Batya. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; HRLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732277
- ISBN
- 9780804732277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Hardback. This title systematically analyzes all sources referring to Elisha ben Abuya, and in so doing, confronts the difficulties of deriving reliable information from rabbinic materials and of writing the biography of a rabbinic hero. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 727.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804733878
- ISBN
- 9780804733878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.92
€ 108.92
Hardback. Scholars have come to realize that we can and need to speak of a twin birth of Christianity and Judaism, not a genealogy in which one is parent to the other. In this book, the author develops a revised understanding of the interactions between nascent Christianity and nascent Judaism in late antiquity. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 268 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCM; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804736176
- ISBN
- 9780804736176
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.31
€ 129.31
Hardback. This work examines stories about Jewish assimilation by four authors: Grigory Bogrov, a Russian Jew; Eliza Orzeszkowa, a Polish Catholic; and Nikolai Leskov and Anton Chekhov, both Eastern Orthodox Russians. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804738309
- ISBN
- 9780804738309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.87
€ 76.87
Hardback. This is a poineering study of the 19th centruy Hasidic movement as shown through the life of one of its most controversial and influential leaders, Rabbi Israel Friedman of Ruzhin (1796-1850). The dramatic episodes of his life are echoed by the contradictory and highly critical opinions of his personal charachter and leadership. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 480 pages, 12 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 3JH; BG; HBG; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 32. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804744683
- ISBN
- 9780804744683
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.82
€ 103.82
Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical G...
Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
Paperback. This text offers a new perspective on rabbinic discussions of menstrual impurity, female physiology, and anatomy, and on the social and religious institutions those discussions engendered. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 344 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 3D; HRCM; HRJ; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804745536
- ISBN
- 9780804745536
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Hardback. This book explores a prominent medieval kabbalist's approach to prayer, meditative contemplation, and the transmission of mystical wisdom. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804759137
- ISBN
- 9780804759137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16
Paperback. Rejecting the distinction Levinas asserted between Judaism and philosophy, this book reads his philosophical works, Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being through the prism of Judaic texts and ideas. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; HRJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804768702
- ISBN
- 9780804768702
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. A new translation and literary interpretation of the first 11 chapters of the Book of Genesis. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HRCG; HRJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804774970
- ISBN
- 9780804774970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.10
€ 23.99
€ 22.10
Paperback. Judaism in Transition places American Judaism in its economic context and shows how the decisions of individual Jews, as they respond to economic incentives, have shaped a community that is characterized by innovative ways of observing ancient religious traditions. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804776059
- ISBN
- 9780804776059
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. This book inquires into the wondrous and complex world of mystical experience in the Zohar, the jewel in the crown of Jewish mystical literature. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: HRJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 671.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804778596
- ISBN
- 9780804778596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Hardback. A pioneering biography of Nathan Birnbaum, one of the central but largely forgotten founders of Zionism, leader in Jewish nationalism, and theoretician of Orthodox political activism. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 408 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804778732
- ISBN
- 9780804778732
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.25
€ 87.25
Hardback. Considers a range of texts-including the Book of Watchers, Book of Jubilees, legal documents from the Dead Sea scrolls, writings of Philo of Alexandria, and the Book of Revelation-to explore the tensions inherent in Second Temple Judaism's emphasis on ancestry as the primary criterion for inclusion among the chosen people of Israel. Series: Jewish Culture & Contexts. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812239508
- ISBN
- 9780812239508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16
Hardback. Kessler shows how the rabbis of the third through sixth centuries turned to non-Jewish writings on embryology and procreation to explicate the biblical insistence on the primacy of God's role in procreation at the expense of the biological parents. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRJS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812241754
- ISBN
- 9780812241754
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16
Hardcover. In Textual Mirrors, Dina Stein draws on literary theory, folklore studies, and semiotics to closely examine midrashic tales in which self-reflexivity operates as a central element. Within these texts, rabbinic discourse itself becomes the object of reflection, both complicating and confirming its religious and ideological principles. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812244366
- ISBN
- 9780812244366
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.94
€ 102.94
Hardcover. Providing a discussion of the Jewish experience in Mediterranean and Western societies over the last 2000 years, these papers concentrate on the doctrinal substance of the Jewish-Christian dispute in the order that it developed. Series: Essential Papers on Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 578 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRC; HRJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 766.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 578
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814714423
- ISBN
- 9780814714423
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.36
€ 92.36